Annual Conference for the Investor and Business Elite to be Held on July 17, 2013 at The Pierre in New York City

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., March 13, 2013—CNBC, First in Business Worldwide, and Institutional Investor, today announced the third annual Delivering Alpha conference, a singular investor event, scheduled for July 17, 2013 at The Pierre in New York City.

This elite investor conference brings together the biggest names in the hedge fund and investor communities, as well as influential political and economic leaders for a high-level discussion on the critical issues facing investors in today's global economy. With one-on-one interviews and panel discussions led by top journalists from CNBC and Institutional Investor, the 2012 Delivering Alpha conference featured United States Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner; Henry Kravis, Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, KKR; James Chanos, President and Founder, Kynikos Associates; Leon Cooperman, Chairman and CEO, Omega Advisors; Preet Bharara, United States Attorney – Southern District of New York; William Ackman, Founder and CEO, Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P.; Henry Paulson, Jr., Chairman, The Paulson Institute and 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury; and Robert Rubin, Co-Chairman, The Council on Foreign Relations and 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury, among others.

Exclusive coverage of the Delivering Alpha conference will be featured on CNBC and CNBC.com.

"In just two years, Delivering Alpha has become the premier investor event for a simple reason: it delivers. It delivers news and views that shape and move the markets," said Nikhil Deogun, SVP and Editor in Chief, CNBC Business News.

"With the help of the Delivering Alpha advisory board, we are dedicated to delivering even more alpha than we did each of the past two years," said Michael Peltz, Editor of the magazine group at Institutional Investor. "Unlike most sequels, Delivering Alpha 2013 will be the best ever."

The conference agenda is being created in collaboration with a distinguished group of advisory board members including:

James S. Chanos, Kynikos Associates

Leon G. Cooperman, Omega Advisors

Mary Callahan Erdoes, J.P. Morgan Asset Management

Andrew Feldstein, BlueMountain Capital Management

Laurence D. Fink, Blackrock

Gregory J. Fleming, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management

Joshua S. Friedman, Canyon Capital Advisors

Michael Hintze, CQS

Chris Hohn, The Children's Investment Fund Management

Raymond Kanner, IBM Retirement Funds

Mark Kingdon, Kingdon Capital Management

Andrew E. Law, Caxton Associates LLC

David McCormick, Bridgewater Associates

Jane Mendillo, Harvard Management Company

Michael Novogratz, Fortress Investment Group LLC

Jim O'Neill, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Richard Perry, Perry Capital

Michael Sacks, Grosvenor Capital Management

Damon A. Silvers, AFL-CIO

Andrew J.M. Spokes, Farallon Capital Management LLC.

John Stevens, General Motors Asset Management (GMAM)

Brian Taylor, Pine River Capital Management

David Villa, The State of Wisconsin Investment Board

A portion of the conference proceeds will benefit The Council for Economic Education (CEE), the nation's leading non-profit dedicated to increasing the economic and financial literacy of K-12 students.

For more information about the 2013 Delivering Alpha conference including registration and sponsorship opportunities, log on to: www.deliveringalpha.com.

About CNBC:

With CNBC in the U.S., CNBC in Asia Pacific, CNBC in Europe, Middle East and Africa, CNBC World and CNBC HD , CNBC is the recognized world leader in business news and provides real-time financial market coverage and business information to approximately 390 million homes worldwide, including more than 100 million households in the United States and Canada. CNBC also provides daily business updates to 400 million households across China. The network's 16 live hours a day of business programming in North America (weekdays from 4:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. ET) is produced at CNBC's global headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., and includes reports from CNBC News bureaus worldwide. CNBC also has a vast portfolio of digital products which deliver real-time financial market news and information across a variety of platforms. These include CNBC.com, the online destination for global business; CNBC PRO, the premium, integrated desktop/mobile service that provides real-time global market data and live access to CNBC global programming; and a suite of CNBC Mobile products including the CNBC Real-Time iPhone and iPad Apps.

Members of the media can receive more information about CNBC and its programming on the NBC Universal Media Village Web site at http://www.nbcumv.com/mediavillage/networks.

About Institutional Investor:

Institutional Investor magazine is the preeminent publication capturing the emergence and growth of institutional investors since the late 1960's. Institutional Investor covers all asset owners —including pension, endowment and sovereign wealth funds — and their impact on global financial markets. In addition to the flagship magazine, Institutional Investor publishes newsletters, books, research products, electronic databases and academic publications, including the iconic Journal of Portfolio Management. Institutional Investor Conferences and Memberships deliver the world's leading asset management firms and institutional investors to foster relationship-building and idea exchange during informal, interactive meetings as well as industry focused research in-between these meetings. Institutional Investor is wholly owned by Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC (ERM.L).

About CNBC:

With CNBC in the U.S., CNBC in Asia Pacific, CNBC in Europe, Middle East and Africa, CNBC World and CNBC HD , CNBC is the recognized world leader in business news and provides real-time financial market coverage and business information to approximately 390 million homes worldwide, including more than 100 million households in the United States and Canada. CNBC also provides daily business updates to 400 million households across China. The network's 16 live hours a day of business programming in North America (weekdays from 4:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. ET) is produced at CNBC's global headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., and includes reports from CNBC News bureaus worldwide.

CNBC also has a vast portfolio of digital products which deliver real-time financial market news and information across a variety of platforms. These include CNBC.com, the online destination for global business; CNBC PRO, the premium, integrated desktop/mobile service that provides real-time global market data and live access to CNBC global programming; and a suite of CNBC Mobile products including the CNBC Real-Time iPhone and iPad Apps.

Members of the media can receive more information about CNBC and its programming on the NBC Universal Media Village Web site athttp://www.nbcumv.com/mediavillage/networks/cnbc/